So we would have come full circle. That actually has a retro appeal to it that it could catch on!

https://youtu.be/8EWDRHC2dzg

I never thought I’d see a keyboard that has less of a spacebar then the ZX Spectrum.

Did they try asking how to stop cheese falling off pizza?

Edit: Although since that idea came from a human, maybe I’ve failed.

I hope this fad passes soon and we return to traditional candidates such as Lord Buckethead or the Monster Raving Loony Party

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Buckethead

https://www.loonyparty.com/

Yeah, 25 seconds in to the video in the story they show Waldo!

It’s not a simple story of just taking away the phone.

I discovered she’d circumvented the screen limits and had been using social media into the wee hours of the morning.

And later, after she did take the phone away, she found her daughter had kept all old phone that was supposedly sold.

It does seem to be a pretty extreme case, but there was lots going on here.

Maybe so. But it did process duplicity backups every week for hundreds of Gb, so it did a fair amount of work even though not constantly active.

FWIW, I ran a Pi 2 with external (self-powered) USB drive for about 8 years as my main backup without issue (except that it was slow). I’ve just replaced it with a Pi 5 and TerraPi frame holding an SSD.

Or like when Meet went away, but Talk in Gmail was renamed Meet and Duo also became corporate Meet.

Or something like that. Maybe Allo was involved.

Given how the “shop and walk out” process worked, they’ll probably outsource it to people paid to throw packages on parachutes over your fence while they make a buzzing noise.

Close.

https://archive.google/pigeonrank/

They stuck him in a glass case in a museum.

https://images.app.goo.gl/avkBQWqoWMG5jFi36

And yet you still can’t share numbers, names and addresses via Contacts.

Calendar supports sharing really well, with the option to show other people’s calendars without merging them. And docs, of course. But not something as simple as an address list.

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Will it summarize EULAs?

And click “I agree” for us?

I find it really frustrating to not have a touchscreen on a laptop (e.g. scrolling and zooming Google maps).

I don’t understand what I’m getting for the price difference compared to a similar windows laptop.

I don’t like how the Ctrl/Fn/Alt/Cmd keys are used, but that’s just because I’m used to Windows. (Remapping then doesn’t help because commands are divided differently been those modifiers).

I do like that it has a native bash shell instead of having WSL with its separate filesystem. But I doubt that that is a common reason people choose macs.

Is it not possible to switch back? I refused the Gemini offer when it appeared.

I was tempted to try it if it appeared again, but I need assistant to perform basic functions more than I need it to have a conversation.

https://wikimapia.org/

It’s a map site that helps you identify places around the world. Google maps is so commerce-focussed, Open Street Map often lacks an explanation of what something is.

But it clearly has issues such as not licensing the background options so it has watermarks and popups.

Opentripmap.com is similar, but is probably just OSM data.

Wikimapia is great for “what’s that wierd marking in the desert”-type questions.

Not everyone knew C.

Lack of trust: what was it doing behind the scenes? What’s if it just went and … allocated memory all by itself!!

Optimization wasn’t so good back then. People believed that they could write better assembly. For speed and size.

Memory was tight. C would include big libraries even if only one function was needed. If “hello world” was several k in size, that added to the suspicion (even though that was a fixed overhead in practice).

This page (and podcast) mentions cars part-way through, saying 80% of outgassing happens in the first three months.

There are references at the end.

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4905